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[david.maxwell@dal.ca]

Claude,  Are you saying you cut the main trunk off at 6 ft, remove any 
branches below this 
level, and graft your scion into the top of the cut-off trunk?  (I have 
worked over seedling 
apple trees by cutting off half the scaffold branches, as well as the central 
trunk, then 
plugging my grafts into the ends of the cut-off branches and central trunk, 
but leaving the 
other half of the original scaffolds until the following year to nourish the 
tree for that year. 
(Then I top-work these remaining scaffolds over to the new variety).)


> >To the List:
> >Let me re-state the question:
> >How best does one create a standard apple tree?
> >Dave Liezen
> 
> Dave, here is my way of doing it... I know it is 
> different from most other suggestions, but this 
> works for me. Here there are many wild seedlings 
> that grow naturally everywhere around. So I 
> choose a nice one, about 6 ft high, and if 
> necessary, transplant it to where I want this 
> standard apple tree (but most often, I just leave 
> the seedling just where it is growing). When it 
> is time to graft, I cut it at chest height and 
> graft the scion there. This is the fastest way I have found yet to get
> a tree. Claude 
> 
> 
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